William Plomer: Selected Poems

William Plomer

He was E.M. Forster’s “favourite contemporary poet”. W.H. Auden extolled his “first-class visual imagination”. Yet for most readers, William Plomer is now a faintly remembered name. By turns lyrical, amatory, satirical and dramatic, Plomer addresses his favourite subjects – Africa, the divided self, aesthetic pleasure, the macabre and the absurd – with a formal assurance, bleak wit and urgency of feeling. This rich and thorough selection presents, for the first time in almost fifty years, Plomer’s best.

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He was E.M. Forster’s “favourite contemporary poet”. W.H. Auden extolled his “first-class visual imagination”. Yet for most readers, William Plomer is now a faintly remembered name. By turns lyrical, amatory, satirical and dramatic, Plomer addresses his favourite subjects – Africa, the divided self, aesthetic pleasure, the macabre and the absurd – with a formal assurance, bleak wit and urgency of feeling. This rich and thorough selection presents, for the first time in almost fifty years, Plomer’s best.

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